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  1. Planets

    Let’s learn about Venus

    Venus’ surface is hot enough to melt lead, studded with volcanoes and shrouded in clouds of corrosive acid.

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  2. Space

    Fast, mysterious clouds swarm around our galaxy

    Astronomers want to know the source — and importance — of these faint, fast-moving clouds that zoom beyond and toward our Milky Way’s disk.

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  3. Space

    Let’s learn about spooky ‘dark energy’

    No one knows exactly what this stuff is, but it’s shaping our universe on the largest scales.

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  4. Space

    The Vera Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize astronomy

    Equipped with the world’s largest digital camera, this new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

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  5. Space

    A passing star could fling Earth out of orbit — or into the sun

    Computer models show that a star's tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

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  6. Space

    Check out the magnetic fields around our galaxy’s central black hole

    Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This offers insight into its magnetic fields.

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  7. Space

    Explainer: What is the solar cycle?

    Here’s what causes the sun’s 11-year cycle of activity and what it means for us on Earth.

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  8. Space

    Scientists Say: Corona

    The sun’s corona can only be seen without special instruments during a total solar eclipse.

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  9. Physics

    Forests could help detect ‘ghost particles’ from space

    If trees could act as natural antennas, one physicist proposes that they just might pick up signals of hard-to-spot ultra-high energy neutrinos.

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